♪ Bob and Brad the two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists on the internet ♪
- Well, hi there folks.
I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- And I'm Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists,
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Our humble opinion.
- That's right.
- Today we are talking about what everyone,
with hand arthritis should do everyday.
So we are talking about Osteoarthritis.
- Where the cartilages start to break down.
Not (indistinct) necessarily.
- Not necessarily, although it slightly helped (indistinct).
- Sure.
- Well, we are also going to give a give away.
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This week we are giving away a fur infrared heating system.
We are gonna show you more of that later.
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All right, this is very simple Brad.
This isn't that complicated.
- Well, simple is best.
- Right, and I also wanted to make it fairly short,
so that its easy for you to do.
Everything is...
- Well, the viewers say we battle too much,
so gonna see if we can counter that on this video.
- All right, so basically what I want you to do,
with the arthritis.
You are gonna heat it and you are gonna move it.
- Yeah.
- Because both of those should help with the pain,
and the mobility.
- Right.
- The thing is, a lot of times people think that,
with arthritis its better to rest it.
- Yes, no.
- No, its much better to move it,
it gets to the synovial fluid moving,
and it creates the synovial fluid,
even I heard something like that.
- It's like Fred Adrian law said,
Motion is lotion - Lotion.
- Did he coin that, do you think?
- I don't know, I've been hearing it for.
- He's a pain specialist.
- I've been hearing it for a hundred years. So.
(Brad giggles)
- So, by the way I am gonna do a future video too
on how to protect you hands.
- Okay, good.
- So the first thing is to heat it.
We've got a couple options here, free ones.
You take a sock, preferably a clean one.
This is clean Brad?
- Yeah big one.
- Yeah, I took a big one.
- Long like a knee soccer.
What do they call them in high school?
They call those tube socks.
- Tube socks. That's right.
So I filled it with a minute rice.
- Oh, minute rice.
- Pre cooked isn't it?
That's already cooked right?
- Just put some rice in it.
But don't cook it. Uncooked, completely uncooked.
- Yeah. And then you just put it
in the microwave heat it up,
and this creates a nice little warm thing
you can just hold on to it in your lap.
- Yeah, it is amazing, I felt a lot of patients do this.
But, make sure it's got a knot tied,
and then double socks.
So we got a double layer, you know,
and for you wives in all you can
smack on you husbands.
- Yeah, that's right.
- If they don't behave.
- Hit him with the ugly stick.
This actually works well for your neck too.
- Yeah, that's a beauty of this, it conforms,
around the neck, around the shoulder.
And, you know, depends size of socks.
You could kinda make that different sizes.
- It kinda smells good too after you.
- And you can continue using it many many times
over and over.
- Yeah, multiple times.
And you can actually freeze it too.
- Yeah.
- Its not that cold.
- It acts as cold pack.
And don't leave it in there for like an hour though
cooking it, because somethings gonna happen.
- Another thing,
even when your hands are in the sink,
if you are doing dishes.
- Oh yeah.
- You're on dishwasher,
It's a good time to do the,
exercise section in hot water.
- Sure, yeah.
Plus you get some work done.
- Plus you get some work done.
Right.
And the final way to heat it up, is the best way,
but it will by far the most expensive way.
- Right.
- And that's why we are doing a giveaway.
Is the fur Infrared heating system by Thermo Techs.
So the thing about infrared heat.
Oh, am gonna grab the, you wanna grab the?
- Yes I do Bob, I want to.
- The thing about that is,
it is it actuates penetration.
Regular heat, if you've seen our channel,
regular heat only penetrates surface.
- Skin deep, you know.
- Skin deep yep.
So that resembles what it does.
- Skin deep.
- Represents, that's what I was looking for.
- Now lets go to the.
- Yeah this side.
Two point three six inches did I get it right?
- Yeah, 2.36. What else would it be?
(Bob laughs)
- We don't want to do metrics.
- Yeah, we shouldn't do metrics,
but we're so good at that.
- So we look at it at that.
Look at how much that would penetrate through the hand,
that would go all the way through the hand, Brad.
- Exactly.
- And.
- Plus when you wrap it in a muff,
it'll show it just looks like a muff.
But you can put both hands in it,
you can get both hands a fully heated.
And you'll do this for 30-40 minutes.
- Yeah. It's going from both sides.
- Right.
- Its going from underneath,
there's panels on both sides there.
- Yeah. There you go.
- Yeah.
- There's three panel here, you have to use this side.
That's the thing with fur infrared,
its not like your conventional...
- And its radiant.
- Radiant heat, yes.
- So actually you don't have to have a conform to you.
- It doesn't have to touch you skin to get the heat.
- Its one temperature.
- Yep.
- But, the cool thing about this is that it is so versatile,
the platinum model.
Because, you can use it on your back, your neck,
your quadriceps, whatever is on there.
Brad and I both have one that we have
on our respective chairs at home.
And we just, sit down and turn it on
and we get treatment for a couple of hours
while you watch TV.
- Especially in winter time.
- Yep.
- Its kinda like you are looking forward to it.
- We kinda getting away from our topic.
I just want to let you know it serves two purposes.
So the exercises, now I'll let you heat it up,
would six simple exercises.
This is called the six pack at Mayo Clinic,
when I worked there.
- I thought it will be like something from Wisconsin
called the six pack.
(Bob laughs)
- No kidding.
- But anyways.
- That would be a sportier twelve pack.
All right, so first the first one,
let's take it to them Brad.
So we are going to do the Table Top, okay.
And then you go right into the claw,
that's number two.
So when you are bending this last two joints, basically.
- This is focusing scientifically.
- And you can just, you know, 10 times,
five to 10 times,
just trying to get things moving.
- Both hands at once.
- Yeah.
- Both hands at once.
- You can do a mirror image.
- Am just showing one.
- I've got a trigger finger,
its going pretty good,
but this is helpful
for that you can tell it,
it works (indistinct)
- All right, next one.
Full grips.
So you going to squeeze all the way shut.
Now you have got all the joints working.
And again.
- Wrap the thumb around the fingers.
- Yeah.
- Now when you are boxing,
you know this Brad,
you are not supposed to use thumb.
- Oh, Bob, of course I know that.
You will hurt you thumb.
When you are a kid though,
I always thought that was harder.
- All right, now abductions, we are going to
spread the fingers apart and together.
Apart and together,
apart and together.
Very good.
Now you are going to touch each finger,
this is a good one for the thumb.
Touch the tips of each finger.
- Doesn't matter whether yo start with the pinky finger.
- (indistinct) you would like to go one way
and then right back the other way.
- Work it back and forth.
- Okay.
I like to do a couple with the thumb itself too Brad.
I just like to do this one,
where you actually go away from the body like that.
Yeah, I can show you in two different ways here.
- Well the thumb you know is...
- You can do that way too Brad,
but this is this way.
- Yeah.
- And also extensions.
- Sure.
- So Brad's already moving ahead here.
- Sorry.
- Buts that works.
This way, this way,
and if you want, you can even slide it across
do a little flexion.
- The thumb is got a quite a few muscles.
- Looks like you are lacking motion that way.
- What am I supposed to do, Bob?
- You're supposed to go all the way to the fifth finger.
- Well I can't do that.
Look at that, its hurting.
- (indistinct) - I got a cramp in my hand.
Thenar eminence,
That's where the muscles are.
- Can you do that on the other one?
You've got a lacking of cells.
- I've got so much muscles in there,
strong like bull
it just doesn't.
- All right, there's some bull beef floating around here,
but its not strong like bull.
- You know you've got to have some fun with your exercises.
- Remember Brad and I can fix anything.
- Except for?
- Broken heart.
- And yeah, 8:30 not bad for us.
- Yeah, that's a record.